An automation tool for Adobe After Effects, the application used to create motion graphics and visual effects. It can manage projects, compositions, layers, animations, effects, expressions, and text.

Use it to create compositions, edit layers, set keyframes, apply effects, write expressions, and make text animations, title cards, lower thirds, or logo reveals.

It removes repetitive manual work when building or changing After Effects projects. It also provides exact ways to address common animation and effect settings.

ae-mcp — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by ishu86/after-effects-mcp

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add ishu86/after-effects-mcp --skill skill

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ishu86/after-effects-mcp

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md

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Per session 170 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 5,088 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00170	$0.05088
Opus 5.5	$0.00068	$0.02035
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00034	$0.01018
Haiku 4.5	$0.00017	$0.00509

Measured 29d ago against content hash 6001d83c3588, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ae-mcp scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 29d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

ae-mcp — 100% identical, 377 lines differ
ae-mcp — 100% identical, 377 lines differ

SKILL/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

After Effects MCP

These tools send ExtendScript to After Effects through a CEP panel. The AE-MCP panel must be open (Window > Extensions > AE-MCP). If every call times out, ask the user to open it.

For worked recipes, read examples.md in this skill.

Before you act

Ask before calling tools that change the open project as a whole: save_project, close_project, open_project, create_project, reduce_project, collect_files, organize_project_items, import_footage, import_folder, replace_footage. The user usually has real work open.
Look before you edit. Call list_compositions, list_layers or get_layer_info rather than guessing names.
Each tool call runs inside an undo group. Prefer a few purposeful calls over many tiny ones, so the user can undo cleanly.
Times are in seconds. Colours are 0-1 RGB objects: {"r": 1, "g": 0.5, "b": 0}.

Property paths

Keyframe, expression and effect-property tools take a property string.

1. Prefer the camelCase shortcuts. They resolve to internal match names, so they also work on non-English installs:

Shortcut	Property
`position`, `anchorPoint`, `scale`, `opacity`	Transform
`rotation`	Rotation (Z rotation on 3D layers)
`rotationX`, `rotationY`, `rotationZ`	3D rotation
`sourceText`	Text layer Source Text
`audioLevels`	Audio levels
`pointOfInterest`	Camera point of interest (AE stores it as the camera's anchor point)
`zoom`, `focusDistance`, `aperture`	Camera options
`lightIntensity`, `lightColor`, `coneAngle`, `coneFeather`, `castsShadows`, `shadowDarkness`, `shadowDiffusion`	Light options

English display names ("Position", "Rotation", "Source Text") also work on an English install.

2. For nested properties, separate levels with / - never ..

Effects/Gaussian Blur/Blurriness
Effects/Gradient Ramp/Start Color
Contents/Group 1/Transform/Position
Contents/Group 1/Contents/Trim Paths 1/End

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

examples.md 15 KB

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

29d ago Changed · -85 lines · +61 tokens per session 6001d83c3588
2mo ago First seen · 287 lines · 109 tokens per session scan A 9125aad2acf2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ae-mcp is a skill published in the GitHub repository ishu86/after-effects-mcp (46 stars, last pushed 29d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 170 tokens to every session and 5,088 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Creative and media

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